Electronic Design

Add Short-Circuit Protection, Diagnostics To Automotive High-Side/Low-Side Driver

Automotive applications need “smarter” drivers for their switches, which handle loads ranging from a fraction of an ampere to several amperes. Not only are these smart chips costly, but many times, ...
EDN

Short-Circuit Finder

The sample tester in Figure.1 Detects short circuits on assembled pc boards and also rings out cables and harnesses. The sample tester in Figure.1 Detects short circuits on assembled pc boards and ...
Electronic Design

2 Watt DC-DC Converter Features Continuous Short Circuit Protection

Aimtec's unregulated AM2LS-NZ series of 2-Watt power supplies offers isolation of 1500 or 3000 VDC and features continuous short circuit protection with auto recovery restart Aimtec's unregulated ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Short-Circuit Calculations: The Easy Way

Short-circuit currents represent a tremendous amount of destructive energy, which can be released through electrical systems under fault conditions. Baseline short-circuit studies should be performed ...
EDN

LTC Design Note: Robust 10MHz reference clock input protection circuit and distributor for RF systems

RF instruments and wireless transceivers often feature an input for an external reference clock, such as the ubiquitous 10MHz reference input port found on RF instruments. Many of these same systems ...
Forbes

Short Circuit Stalls Large Hadron Collider's Restart

The restart of the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been delayed after a short circuit was found in one of the machine’s magnets. CERN said today that seven of the machine’s eight ...